AWS Database Blog
Author: Tom Staab
Tom is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He has been with AWS for 6 years and has worked with SQL Server for over 2 decades specializing in the data engine and Integration Services as an architect, developer, administrator, and mentor as well as a speaker at events such as SQL Saturday, PASS Summit, AWS Summit, and AWS re:Invent.
New, Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instance Types Drive Database Workloads
Perfectly sized instances for maximizing Microsoft SQL Server Standard In September, Amazon Web Services announced availability of the new Amazon EC2 x1e.32xlarge instance type with 128 vCPU and 3,904 GiB of memory. Since that announcement, we have heard from customers that they want more instance configuration choices with fewer vCPUs, while maintaining a high ratio […]